Zara and Mike Tindall take a trip to the Austrian Alps and share a boozy lunch with friends

Zara and Mike Tindall continue to steer themselves away from any royal drama that may be brewing in the UK, after enjoying a cosy ski trip together.

Princess Anne’s daughter, 41, and the ex-rugby ace, 44, were pictured beaming against a backdrop if bright blue skies and fresh powder at Saalbach in Austria, in photos posted on Mike’s Instagram account.

Sharing the holiday snaps, Mike wrote: ‘Amazing couple of days skiing in Saalbach,  great hospitality with fantastic people! Maybe a charity event in the pipeline??’

Their trip to the Alps comes after the pair were caught larking about down under at the Magic Millions charity event in Australia earlier this month while their royal relatives at home were left reeling from the fallout of Prince Harry’s memoir Spare. 

Mike’s post shared a series of photos from his holiday which included a group snap of himself and Zara around a table while enjoying crisp-looking glassed of white wine, as well as a sweet selfie of the couple in at the top of one of the slopes.

Mother-of-three Zara beamed in her reflective Goggles and a purple ski jacket while carrying a rucksack.

The royal couple had a boozy lunch with their pals on one day as they were pictured drinking ice cold glasses of wine

One of the guests who joined the royal couple at lunch was Alexandra Meissnitzer, a now-retired alpine ski racer who has won three Olympic medals. 

The couple’s trip away comes after the first episode of the I’m a Celebrity star’s new podcast series, Mike Drop, was released and featured an interview between the couple with Zara in the hot seat.

At several points in the interview, Zara became emotional as her husband tapped into sensitive subjects, including how she suffers from ‘mum guilt’ and touching on her experience of miscarriage.

She explained she found it difficult returning to riding after having her children, Mia, eight, Lena, five, and Lucas, 18-months, saying: ‘I found it hard getting myself back to it. Mentally, you feel guilty as a mother leaving your child to go and do something else.’

In the wide-ranging interview, she revealed how, after having her eldest daughter Mia in 2014, she was determined to return to riding.

She told Mike: ‘After having Mia, I felt like my goal was to get back on a horse, I want to get back.

‘I had a good horse to come back to for your confidence and trying to – I wanted to get back for him as well. Trying to have a goal is probably something I always need.

‘I always need goals in my life and set many goals in my life all the time.’

However she said she had struggled, saying: ‘It was hard getting your body back when you’ve been riding for 25 years, and then your body is just completely not doing that.

‘Your muscles [are] doing nothing and stretching and creating an amazing thing but it’s completely different.

‘Trying to get your body back to where it was, I found, was hard work.’

Meanwhile she acknowledged how the couple had balanced Zara’s career with life as new parents, adding: ‘Mia was along for the ride with us as well.

‘She was very much taken around to the shows – it was easier when we had one.’